Question Kommunity Question - Inevitable Patching

[SLy]

and the rest of the patch is just guesses as to what the other characters need. Because we are going to need time with a patch, to see what the next patch should fix.

This is something about them ive never understood. If they have to guess then do they really need fixing?. Must every character have to be touched just because x y and z character had some work done?

 

[Juggs]

People tend to forget that it takes a patch to fix a patch. We can't wait 6 months for Superman to just dominate everyone. What magical knowledge are we going to get while he is destroying everyone? You first have to fix Superman so you can see what really needs fixing. You can't wait 6 months to just get a patch nerfing Superman and Black Adam and the rest of the patch is just guesses as to what the other characters need. Because we are going to need time with a patch, to see what the next patch should fix. It is a process. If you wait 6 months to figure out what is broken, basically 75% of the community will either be Superman or quit and then change to whatever is dominate after that 6 month patch.

Patch early, patch often. Adjust as players and grow. MKX won't be perfect, but I would make a bet that each patch that comes out improves the game.

Patching early and often creates situations where things that do not need to be nerfed are nerfed, and things that do not need to be buffed are buffed. There's a very knee jerk reaction trend in the NRS community especially in regards to how good or bad certain characters are. You can't really know if something is too good or not good enough within such a short time frame unless it's something obviously broken or bugged. If this were the case in other fighters, C.Viper would have gotten unnecessarily buffed in the early stages of SF4, as she was seen as one of the worst characters before people realized how good she was.

 

[JJvercetti]

Hopefully we may get even more patches then NRS usually do since patches and update fees are free on PS4 (Last I heard)
Edit: I did not think about the team at NRS having to pay their employees to do patches

 

[Juggs]

Also, it helps with the longevity of the game if you spread the patches out. Patching 10 times in 3 months is great, but if you don't patch after that it hurts the game. If you have 10 patches you can have for the game, and spread them out over 5 years, the game will last 5 years, instead of 2 like it seems to in the NRS community. NRS's lack of support of games after the "last patch" is the main reason our games die out. To use SF4 as an example again, they wait a full year before making an update/patch and it's usually big and changes a lot. You can also be assured that most of the changes are warranted because of the year long testing and feedback.

 

[Shark Tank]

Hopefully we may get even more patches then NRS usually do since patches and update fees are free on PS4 (Last I heard)
Edit: I did not think about the team at NRS having to pay their employees to do patches

If they don't we can a fundraiser to pay paulo for the 3 year lifespan patch. Name your price mr. garcia

 

[Wildabeast]

Patching early and often creates situations where things that do not need to be nerfed are nerfed, and things that do not need to be buffed are buffed. There's a very knee jerk reaction trend in the NRS community especially in regards to how good or bad certain characters are. You can't really know if something is too good or not good enough within such a short time frame unless it's something obviously broken or bugged. If this were the case in other fighters, C.Viper would have gotten unnecessarily buffed in the early stages of SF4, as she was seen as one of the worst characters before people realized how good she was.

Something else that needs to be kept in mind that a lot of people forget, MK was popular with the Street Fighter crowd when it first came out, then the constant knee jerk patches made them say "fuck this, why invest all this time and effort into learning a character and a game if everything is just going to be patched every month." This community lost a lot of good players because of that.

 

[CrimsonShadow]

There's already an ongoing thread on this topic, with plenty of opinions:
http://testyourmight.com/threads/mkx-the-3-to-6-month-rule.48889/

Redirecting the discussion there

P.S. But in reality, the poll's topic is moot anyhow; as much as people would like to think they control them, patches are the game designers' decision only. They will patch when the game isn't working as intended, and will have been planning and testing the changes long before the patch is announced.